Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

In many instances, the words “sell” and “influence” are completely interchangeable.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Everyone has the answers.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.